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“to boldly lead.”
Since its inception, the Porter Colloquium has served as an important and dynamic forum for leading scholarship and discourse on African American Art. The Colloquium continues to provide an invaluable scholarly venue where “voices emerge.” This section highlights many of the published contributions past Colloquium presenters have offered to the field.
Recent Scholarship
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Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists
Past Presenter
Lisa Farrington
"Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists is an exemplary piece of scholarship. Rich in information and images, it is contextualized in socio-economic, political and artistic facts. This tome is a brilliant history reflecting the aesthetics and the social and metaphysical traditions of African-American women artists and their artistry. A Must Read!!"
– Tritobia Hayes-Benjamin, Howard University
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Colored Pictures: Race & Visual Representation (2004)
Past Presenter
Michael D. Harris
“Michael Harris's important study emerges at an opportune moment. With the debates that have revolved (and continue to spin) around the black figure in art and popular culture, Colored Pictures strikes a fresh, discerning chord. Its oppositional yet assentingly critical interrogations of past and present renderings of peoples of African descent are informed by history, cultural insights, and ethical considerations and provide an abundance of thought toward reevaluating racially limned identities in modern and contemporary art."
– Richard J. Powell, Duke University |
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New Negro Artists in Paris
Past Presenter
Theresa Leininger-Miller
“This book is an important and sorely needed contribution to scholarship on early twentieth-century American art. The publication of Leininger-Miller's extensive research should make it virtually impossible to work in this field without considering the African American presence in transatlantic modernism."
-Mary Ann Calo, editor of Critical Issues in American Art |
Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker
Past Presenter
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
“Seeing the Unspeakable is an extremely important work. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw is the first writer to place this controversial young artist’s work firmly in an art historical perspective. She combines careful scrutiny of the art’s formal traits with wide-ranging iconographic analysis, canny theoretical interpretation, and a revelatory examination of the work’s critical reception. The result is an extraordinary piece of scholarship.”
—Judith Wilson, University of California, Irvine |
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New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement
Past Presenters
Margo Crawford
Lisa Gail Collins
"New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement, true to its title, provides a bracing reconsideration of how political vision blended with aesthetic production to form a watershed moment in African American cultural history. Exploring a rich array of media, genres, artists, and thinkers, these essays together constitute an impressively vigorous call for continued revaluation of the Black Arts Movement as a gritty, nuanced, and still-influential period of black expressive ferment. A major contribution to African American and American cultural studies."
– Kimberly W. Benston, author of Performing Blackness
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Basquiat
Past Presenters
Kellie Jones
Franklin Sirmans
Past Presenter
Ann Gibson
Lowery Stokes Sims |
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